U+C58D "얍" Hangul Syllable Yab Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얍
U+C58D "얍" Hangul Syllable Yab is a precomposed syllabic block in the modern Hangul script, used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic syllable "yap" and is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for a null or initial sound), the vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㅂ (b). In Korean, this syllable appears in various words, including the exclamation "얍" (yap), which is often uttered when making a quick, energetic motion such as a punch or leap in martial arts, sports, or playful contexts, similar to "hyaa" or "yah" in English. The character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes over 11,000 such precomposed syllables to facilitate digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C58D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yab |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "야" U+C57C Hangul Syllable Ya "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC58D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C58D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc58d |